SS Wotan Books
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Upalne lato 1939 roku. Cała Europa znajduje się w cieniu nadchodzącej wojny. Niemcy szukają już tylko pretekstu, by ją wywołać. Jednak ich przeciwnicy do ostatniej chwili starają się uzyskać informacje, które mogą zadecydować o wyniku przyszłego starcia. Kluczem wydaje się być niemiecka maszyna szyfrująca ENIGMA. Do akcji w Berlinie wkracza brytyjski wywiad wspomagany przez polskich agentów. Liczy się każda chwila – armia hitlerowska jest już gotowa do wojny z Polską. Elitarny oddział – BATALION SZTURMOWY SS WOTAN zostaje wysłany do przeprowadzenia prowokacji w radiostacji w Gliwicach, a celem pierwszej kampanii staje się Warszawa.
At the height of World War II, with the Middle East in turmoil, the British race against time to protect their base at Basra, safeguard their vital oil resources, and stop a German-Iraqi plot to end British power in the region
The German capital is dying. The German defenders are close to surrender. Hitler intends to kill himself and his mistress, Eva Braun. But not all the Party bosses are prepared to follow the Fuhrer to his doom. Martin Bormann decides to make a break for it with millions of gold bullion from the Reichsbank. That money will be used to set up the Fourth Reich in South America. To help him escape he needs what is left of SS Assault Regiment Wotan. But the renegade SS officers Schulze and Matz have other ideas...
SS Assault Regiment Wotan is put in the vanguard of one million troops in Hitler's planned attack on the doors of the Kremlin, only to be forced into a panicked retreat from the Moscow suburbs in the harshest conditions.
The latest in the action-packed S. S. Wotan series offers a fact-based World War II adventure featuring the crack German regiment as it moves into Yugoslavia as part of an all-out Nazi effort to destroy the powerful resistance forces of Tito.
As D-Day approaches, Hitler moves north, but Commander von Dodenburg believes that the Allies have targeted Normandy and, risking death for insubordination, plans a preemptive strike designed to retain Nazi control over Europe.
This is another Wotan adventure, with von Dodenburg, Matz, Schulze and the rest fighting not only the winter and the Russians, but also their own comrades in the SS. Written by Leo Kessler, who is the pseudonym for the author Charles Whiting.
In the spring of 1942, the Japanese 14th Army overran Bataan Peninsula on the island of Luzon in the Philippines and captured 78,100 American and Filipino troops. Almost immediately, a curtain of silence settled over Bataan, concealing from the rest of the world the fate of the prisoners. It was not util more than a year and a half later that the terrible story of the ... more »evacuation of the Filipino and American captives from Bataan became te most publicized episode of the entire Phillipine campaign. Although a few survivors have written about their experiences, this is the first book to tell the whole story of the Death March, of what happened on the Japanese side as well as the plight of the Americans and Filipinos. Mr. Falk not only describes the march- and corrects several mistaken impressions about it- but also explains the conditions and causes that led to it. To do this the author made a careful study of American and Japanese Army records, letters and diaries, the war crimes of Lt. General Masaharu Homma, and interviews with survivors. Stanley Falk is a historian with the Office, Chief of Military History, Department of the Army
Dodenburg in charge of a regiment who have to see a precious cargo of diamonds through the American-held Vosges in Alsace to the port of Lorient where the German U-boat will collect them.
He is planning a huge armoured offensive, which will divide the British and American armies in the Low Countries. To lead this great war-winning attack he has selected Sepp Deitrich's 7th SS Panzer Army, which will have as its point Colonel yon Dodenburg's elite SS Assault Regiment ""Wotan"". But the veteran von Dodenburg does not agree with the aims of the objective - the crossing of the River Meuse and the drive to the key Allied supply port of Antwerp. He believes the objective, which will involve driving his great 60-ton tanks through the mountain roads of Belgium, to be impossible in winter. Von Dodenburg sets off without permission to cover the designated route, and finds it can be done after all - though only at great cost. But all the while Eisenhower has known the German intentions and in order to trap them has deliberately thinned his lines to allow the Germans to get through... Based on fact, Operation Fury is an action-packed story, full of deceit and counter-deceit in the highest places.
In a race against Norge partisans, British ski troops and the horrific winter weather, a handful of SS volunteers head for the great port. If they don't make it, they might as well turn the scales of war.
April 1940. In the midst of ceremonial preparations, a former Lieutenant of Wotan asks for volunteers to take part in a secret mission in Norway approved by the Fuhrer - to cut the crucial railway line transporting ore from Navik - in a race against partisans, British ski troops and the weather.
Half a century after his death, secrets it was thought Mussolini had taken to his grave emerge threatening to tarnish and blight the reputation of the popular English leader. There are those who will go to any length to find the Churchill papers.
Western Front, December 1941. For over three months the Allies have been slogging away trying to puncture Hitler's dreaded Westwall into the Reich. But to no avail. Now, with casualties running into hundreds of thousands, Supreme Commander US General Eisenhower is no further forward than he was the previous September. With Washington breathing down his neck for a breakthrough, Ike hits on a cunning plan: he will lure the Germans out of their fortifications in the Ardennes by allowing them to attack a purposely thin front. Then, using his most fearless general, 'Old Blood an' Guts' Patton, commander of the 3rd US Army to slam into the Germans' left flank, he will cut them off. With the enemy decimated the Allies can finally break in to the Reich for victory. But there are dark forces at work on both sides to thwart the Westwall offensive -- and General Patton is an obvious target for elimination...
Part of the SS Wotan series, this title is set in wartime Belgium of 1944. General Hank Horowitz of the 82nd Airborne Division, has been captured by the men of SS Wotan during the Battle of the Bulge and his captors wait for him to recover so that they can interrogate him.
The latest in the SS Wotan series, based on the mysterious disappearance of Glenn Miller on 15 December 1944 Winter 1944: Part of the plan of the Battle of the Bulge is the assassination of the Allied Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower in Paris. Skorzeny believes if he can knock out 'lke', the great Allied coalition will fall apart - so when the Germans attack, the allied defence will be without overall control. His plan is to get through to Eisenhower and murder him on Saturday 16 December 1944. During that day, he will be celebrating the award by Congress of his fifth star as a general, and he will be closely guarded in his Versailles villa. But that evening, a combo from Glenn Miller's Air Force Band will be providing the music for lke's party. It's the perfect cover for a high-profile murder. But first, Glenn Miller has to be replaced...
The master storyteller looks at a topical phase of World War II They called themselves the Pact of Steel. They were Germany, Japan and Italy, and in 1941 they dreamed up an audacious plan to take over the world. They would drive from east to west to destroy the British Empire and then the United States. Finally, Soviet Russia would fall to them too, and the earth would belong to them, and, in particular, to Adolf Hitler, the ruler of National Socialist Germany. In the spring of 1941, when a sudden revolt broke out in Iraq, still dominated by the British since they had taken over the mandate after the First World War, the masters of the Pact of Steel decided that Iraq would be the place where Japan and Germany would join hands and commence this march to world domination.
A new mission for the hardbitten men of SS Assault Regiment Wotan. Summer 1942. Leningrad, Russia's premier city after Moscow, has been besieged by German and Finnish troops for weeks in a siege that will eventually last 900 days. Leningrad, built by Peter the Great, is a prestige object for both the Russians and the Germans. Stalin will defend it to the last; Hitler will fight to the last to gain it. Now Hitler personally prepares a daring and ambitious plan. The city is surrounded save for a narrow corridor based on Lake Ladoga. There the Russians, not expecting a German armoured attack in the snow that's soon to come, had reduced their forces to three infantry divisions. Aware of this, Hitler decides to send in his elite Wotan. It will use Finland as its base, passing secretly through the immense forests of the area, and take the defenders of Lake Ladoga by surprise. The war a battle of the Titans has become a personal matter between Hitler and Stalin, and Wotan will undergo tremendous suffering and losses to make Hitler's dream come true.
A new mission for the hard-bitten men of SS Assault Regiment Wotan Russia, 1942: Battling against the harsh conditions, the German offensive has stalled outside Moscow. A morale-boosting coup is devised by Hitler to revigorate the men. A plan is hatched for Germany's top climbers to climb Mount Elbrus and plant the swastika for the world to see. But the ruthless men face a threat from another team of experienced Russian climbers who are approaching the mountain from the other side . .
A gripping thriller dramatizing the final campaign of the Desert Fox - North Africa, 1943. Field Marshal Rommel of the German Afrikakorps is sick and disgraced. He decides on a last victory before Hitler calls him home. The elite Brandenburger unit struggles through the trackless desert to spring a surprise on the lately-arrived Americans and their incompetent, Anglophobic General Fredendall. The only man who might warn the Americans is Colonel Nichols, a very British ex-Oxford don . . .
An SS Wotan Adventure. SS Wotan were the elite of the elite, who fought and whored and died on the battlefields of Europe, eternally loyal to their Fhrer, but above all to one another. Their brutal efficiency became the stuff of legends and spawned rumours of sadism and debauchery. They were Nazi Germanys storm-troopers, and they stopped at nothing. This is their story.